Sophie turned to look at the voice. Too astonished to be afraid, she stared. The voice belonged to a green scaly creature.

“You have questions, I’m sure,” it said. “It was the crystal, you see. Only special–“

It’s head popped up, then it reached it’s arm into nothing, and pulled out a boy.

“And here’s another,” it said amiably.

“George? George, what are you doing here?” Sophie exclaimed as she recognized her classmate. “What has George to do with it? He can’t even speak!”

“Can,” he muttered as he looked around. Sophie realized he was taking it better than her and stiffened her spine.

“Well, come along children, everything will be explained when you get to the school,” the creature said happily as it turned towards the large ramshackle building behind it. “We’ll be just in time for lunch.”

This prompt was brought to us by Priceless Joy, our leader of Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. Check out all the other excellent stories HERE. Mine ran a bit long at 184 words this week.

Lol. I have a feeling they’re going to be lunch. It was also amusing this creature pulled out the girl’s classmate. Something to watch for (an editor suggested this to me, as well) it’s better not to break up dialogue in the middle of sentences because it disrupts the flow of reading. I was told to put dialogue tags where dialogue ends naturally. Otherwise I enjoyed your story.

Lol. Oh course I get interrupted. I completely agree, I use dialogue that interrupts each other. I think we’re thinking of different sentences. It’s the second sentence where you inserted a dialogue tag in the middle of a character’s dialogue. It’s just something I was told by an editor who writes professionally and I thought I’d pass the info along. But we all have our own personal writing styles. 🙂